Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Stirner, Max

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Ford, Henry

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

11.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

15.

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Briscoe, Stuart

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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Angelou, Maya

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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

O'Neil, George

21.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Hunt, Roy L.

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I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Mack, Connie

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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Didion, Joan

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself.

Heatter, Gabriel

28.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

30.

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

32.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Hill, Napoleon

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

34.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Depree, Max

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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Waitley, Denis

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Warhol, Andy

42.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Simpson, O. J.

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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Tracy, Brian

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

48.

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

49.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

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Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.